Thank you for your suggestion. I will try. In research I am more macroeconomic-oriented, so it's the bull's eye.
On Sun, 4 May 2014, oleg_komashko@ukr.net wrote: > Thank you, I will try now. I've only copy-pasted from SVAR.pdf Yes! Graphics has become much nicer. > But I'd never guessed the right order of commands if without your letter. Well, it _is_ mentioned in the SVAR documentation... >sprintf still doesn' work in Linux. I'v got the chart by IRFplot(&Mod, i, j) ??? > P.S. I have seen your 2006 article long before I started using gretl > when I prepared a textbook chapter. So I well understand your level and > guess you are interested in really cool things to implement in gretl. I > feel slightly guilty to torture you with tiny bugs. Thank you. If you're interested in SVARs, you can contribute too. As you're probably aware of by now, gretl's SVAR module is written entirely in hansl (source at http://gretl.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gretl/gretl-addons/SVAR/). If you feel like improving on it (and believe me, there are lots of areas that could benefit from some extra work), you're welcome to it! :) > Two things to cheer up. I am planning to enlist to gretl about 200 new > students every year. Imagine potential for gretl users. Once, using > google translator I looked for some Chinese gretl and econometric > references for my students from China. I found a Chinese language site > with a counter of gretl users: 8000 Taiwan 2000 Mainland. What will be, > when the rules against piracy in the mainland China will become > civilized. A don't know, may be it's blocked in the civilized world, but > the web is swollen with perfectly cracked e-viewses and statas. When I > changed to Linux, R and gretl, everybody looked at me as at a freak. It's understandable that many people start using free software because you don't have to pay for it. Our goal, however, is to provide a better tool than commercial software, not just with a better quality/price ratio. In some areas, I'd venture to say that our implementation of certain statistical techniques is on par, if not better, than any other package (commercial or not); in some other area, R is king. Of course, in some other areas we're behind, no question about it. For example, I still think that the greatest strength of Stata is the quality of their manuals. I wish we had manuals comparable to theirs. Oh, well. ------------------------------------------------------- Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES) Università Politecnica delle Marche (formerly known as Università di Ancona) r.lucchetti@univpm.it http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti -------------------------------------------------------